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Poem Details
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| Title: | Birth Canal |
| Author: | Jimmy |
| Date Submitted: | 9/9/2009 |
| Email: | jimellner@hotmail.com |
| Poem: |
My mind bogged down Caught in the sunset Like inching its way up a slough Trying to get back into the mainstream That could be the end of words The river moves too fast I''m a slothful creature Man in my senior years Parts broken into lines on paper Don''t know the difference from desperation or despair Moving slowly on the skiff As if being born from primeval waters Fowl landing on the muddy streamway Been here for sixty-four years Buried my grandparents, father and mother Lost my youth, ran the HWY''S of America But never left the waters They run in my veins Live in my cerebrum The matriarch, vaginal water way of consciousness Evolved to propagate a planet Everything transposed by mind Giving meaning Without a purpose The first word... |